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Parabola, also known as Parabola: The Search for Meaning, is a Manhattan-based quarterly magazine on the subjects of mythology and the world's religious and cultural traditions. Founder and editor Dorothea M. Dooling began publishing in 1976. [1] It is published by The Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, a not-for-profit organization.
The oldest reference to this myth is a passage from the Suda, a 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia. The myth is a misinterpretation of a passage from Pliny the Elder's Natural History, which mentions a "Caesar" (one of the ancestors of Julius Caesar) being cut from his mother's womb. [22]
Old wives' tale. An " old wives' tale " is a colloquial expression referring to spurious or superstitious claims. They can be said sometimes to be a type of urban legend, said to be passed down by older women to a younger generation. Such tales are considered superstition, folklore or unverified claims with exaggerated and/or inaccurate details.
The Annunciation by Guido Reni (1621). Miraculous births are a common theme in mythological, religious and legendary narratives and traditions. They often include conceptions by miraculous circumstances and features such as intervention by a deity, supernatural elements, astronomical signs, hardship or, in the case of some mythologies, complex plots related to creation.
Kamer Genç wrote in the October 23, 1968 issue of Nokta magazine, "Everyone has a donkey relationship in their past". [4] In an interview with an Internet radio station in 2010, Haydar Dümen stated that sexual intercourse with a donkey was a rural custom and that it was said “it's time to take your boy to the donkey now” and that his ...
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Elves and Heroes (1909) (tales and poems) Finn and his warrior band;: Or, Tales of old Alban (1911) The khalifate of the West (1911) Indian Myth and Legend (1912) Teutonic Myth and Legend (1912, 2nd Ed. 1934) Donald Alexander, Mackenzie (1913). Indian myth and legend. Gresham, London. Egyptian Myth and Legend (1913)